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Chair Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's possible to have a conservative serve in a cardinal position, a subcommittee chair position, and be very effective.
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote 'The Hunger Games' in a chair, like a La-Z-Boy chair, next to my bed. I had an office, but my kids sort of took it over.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Republican; I'd say I'm a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's something I believe in as the Republican chair - that we have to continue outreach to every American because I firmly believe our policies and our principles and the way we govern is better for every American.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.
- George W. Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee's ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing I do on stage is to self-induce amnesia. I want to go on every night and say, 'I've never sat in this chair. I've never been in this room.'
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my first memory is sitting in my dad's chair in a small office and I used to imagine that I was picking up the phone and issuing commands. And I was only seven.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
- Captain
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.
- Nov 07, 2020
Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?
- Nov 07, 2020
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really have to accept the fact that I'm not a young man anymore, that I've probably taken one lifetime's worth of punishment already, and I really do need to be careful. Certainly I don't want other WWE superstars taking the shots I did. That makes me feel very uncomfortable when I see somebody get hit with an unprotected chair shot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed.' My mum used to say life isn't for sissies.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're normal people. Don't be scared because we are in a chair. People don't understand that. They think, 'Oh, a wheelchair, something's wrong with their heads, something's just not right.' Well yeah, we may be a little twisted, but no more than anyone else.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
- Criminal Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.
- Comfortable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not comfortable leaving the apartment if the bed isn't made or a chair isn't tucked into the table.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's no better place to fight for working families than the governor's chair.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not the paraplegic seated permanently in his chair or the able-bodied person on her feet. Identity for a hemiplegic is a shifty thing.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
- Deliberation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
- Nov 07, 2020
Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ruefully admit that if the cat is asleep in my chair - which she regards as hers, of course - I tend to leave her there and take the other one.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got tables they're going through constantly, chair shots, all this, very dangerous maneuvers where you can possibly break your neck or something like that.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
- Nov 07, 2020
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
- Folded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can sit on a chair with a score and give myself a wonderful performance.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I said if I sat on the Iron Throne would probably be, 'Ouch!' It's actually painful because it's made of swords. But my first Royal Edict would be, 'Somebody get rid of this damn chair!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I do a play, I'm like, 'When do I get to do the one where I wear a gown, sit in a chair, and say funny things?' I'd love to do that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020